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Acton Capital, Munich-based growth venture capital investor, has held the final closing of its new Acton Fund V at USD215 million (EUR193 million).
Building upon the success of its previous funds, the new fund will focus on tech-enabled business models and startups in their growth stage.
Since the first investment in Alando forming the core of eBay Europe in 1999, the Acton team has supported over 80 digital companies on their way to market leadership. Acton Capital invests worldwide, with a strong focus on Germany and Europe (75 per cent) and North America (25 per cent).
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Bolt, a European on-demand transportation platform, has launched a dedicated environmental impact fund with seed capital of EUR10 million aimed at initiatives which deliver global social and environmental benefits.
The fund’s first transaction will finance a forest creation project that plants trees to increase natural carbon sequestration, increase biodiversity, stop pollutants from entering water courses, and prevent the erosion of topsoil. The initiative involves planting over 9,500 trees on 5.8 hectares of land in Angus, Scotland.
Bolt’s environmental impact fund forms part of the company’s wider environmental strategy known as ‘the Green Plan’ which focuses on long-term commitment to
US and Israel-based cybersecurity startup company, Sepio Systems, has raised USD6.5 million in its latest funding round led by Hanaco Ventures and Merlin Ventures.
Sepio’s existing investors Energias de Portugal (EDP), Mindset Ventures and Pico Partners also participated in the funding round. Since its establishment, Sepio Systems has raised USD11 million.
In conjunction with the financing, Sepio has also made two new appointments to its management team. Gili Sahar is to join as CFO and Chen Ben Eliyahu has been appointed Vice President of Business Development.
Sepio offers an end-to-end solution that detects and mitigates hardware-based attacks, rogue
As investors scramble to build their private equity allocations, PE groups are responding in kind in a bid to meet demand. Developing new products, however, is no easy task. If it is done in a vacuum, without genuine investor interest, or if a fund is developed too quickly, such that the manager is unable to deliver on the investment promise, the outcome is often bad.
Which is precisely why the largest PE groups avoid such pitfalls.
One of the biggest and most successful, in terms of fund raising and exceptional multi-year performance is The Carlyle Group. Leading its fund raising
Anacapa Partners, a private equity firm focused on the lower middle market, has completed a growth investment in Agasus, a Brazilian hardware-as-a-service (HaaS) provider.
Headquartered, in São Paulo, Agasus provides rental services for critical technology hardware infrastructure such as desktop computers, notebooks and tablets, to large and medium size enterprise customers. The company serves customers in 12 states and 186 cities throughout Brazil.
“We are excited to partner with 220 Capital, a search fund through which this investment was made, to provide Agasus and its management team with the means to further expand service offerings and geographic reach,” says
Prime Capital AG, the independent asset management firm and financial services provider, has closed a 254 MW onshore wind project in Sweden.
The project, realised in close collaboration with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE), was acquired by a consortium of Korean institutional investors, Siemens Financial Services and German Pension Fund Nordrheinische Ärzteversorgung, from Holmen AB, one of Sweden’s largest forest owners. Prime Capital structured and commercialised the project and will build and manage it on behalf of the consortium.
The wind energy project called “Stavro” is located in the northern part of Sweden, northwest of Umeå, and divided into
Singapore global private markets platform CapBridge has partnered with Know Your Customer to deliver fast and reliable client onboarding to retail investors.
Regtech provider Know Your Customer will be powering the private investment platform’s secure digital onboarding process for all investors.
This partnership comes after CapBridge received approval from its regulator to extend private equity access to retail investors – further lowering the barriers of private equity investing for Singapore investors as well as broadening the liquidity pool for companies on the global private markets platform.
Established in 2015, Know Your Customer provides digital solutions for anti-money laundering (AML) and know
Enhanced Healthcare Partners (EHP), a New York-based private equity firm focused on investing in middle-market healthcare business, and Bourne Partners Strategic Capital (BPSC), a pharmaceuticals services and consumer healthcare-focused investment firm, have acquired Pharmaceutical Associate Inc (PAI).
PAI, a company that focuses in liquid unit-dose, bottle prescription and over the counter medications, will work EHP and BPSC to expand its manufacturing capacity, product lines and market footprint.
PAI manufacture and markets generic liquid pharmaceuticals for hospitals, independent pharmacies, retail chains, long-term care facilities and government agencies. PAI offers a complete line of hard-to-find liquid products in both out-patient out-patient
Acceleration Community of Companies (ACC) has acquired MKG, a national creative agency and Pink Sparrow, a national design and fabrication shop specialising in experimental environments.
The transaction was led by ACC Founder and CEO Michael Nyman and Founder and Chairman of MKG and Pink Sparrow, Maneesh K Goyal.
Founded in 2018, ACC is composed on acquired marketing, media and communications agencies and complemented by an advisory service. MKG was founded in 2003 and has offices in New York and Los Angeles. Pink Sparrow was launched in 2013 and operates from Brooklyn and Los Angeles, working with brands in the
Stephens, an international corporate finance advisory business, has appointed Robin Brown as Managing Director, Technology.
Brown joins Stephen’s integrated tech sector team, based across the US and Europe. He joins from BDO Corporate Finance where he was Managing Director and Head of the Tech and Media A&M team.
Brown’s appointment follow Stephen’s recent hire of Simon Tilley, who is responsible for European sponsor coverage.
“Robin has tremendous insights and expertise, having achieved success in both the M&A sphere and in the management of companies within the tech industry,” comments Brad Eichler, Executive Vice President and head of Stephens investment banking
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